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Logic is a harsh mistress: welfare economics for economists

机译:逻辑是残酷的情妇:经济学家的福利经济学

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Every economic explanation assumes maximization. How strange, then, that few economists accept one of maximization's most straightforward implications: every observed institution is efficient. My aim is to persuade economists of this fact and thus to dissuade them from making illogical claims about social welfare. To frame my argument, I consider the "property rights approach" to institutions developed by Yoram Barzel. I speculate that economists resist what maximization implies about institutional efficiency because they think that efficiency-always precludes them from improving the world, and hope of improving the world is what attracted them to economics in the first place. But, besides being inconsistent, resistance is unnecessary: efficiency-always does not preclude economists, or anyone else, from improving the world.
机译:每个经济解释都假定最大化。那么,很少有经济学家会接受最大化最直接的含义之一是多么奇怪:每个观察到的制度都是有效的。我的目的是说服经济学家相信这一事实,从而说服他们不要对社会福利提出不合逻辑的主张。为了阐明我的观点,我考虑了约拉姆·巴泽尔(Yoram Barzel)建立的机构的“产权方法”。我推测经济学家抵制最大化对制度效率的暗示,因为他们认为效率总是使他们无法改善世界,而改善世界的希望首先是吸引他们进入经济学的原因。但是,除了前后矛盾之外,抵抗也是不必要的:效率始终不排除经济学家或其他任何人改善世界。

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